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I doubt she has a firmware list of people authorized to give orders. It has sounded more like she has a rule set for who can give orders:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fv02547.htm

I think he's given her free will. He'd apparently planned for it to happen: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fv02536.htm

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at October 27, 2014 01:49 AM (L5yWw)

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What has bugged me the whole time this story line has gone on is that I find myself not liking the fact that she is thought of as 'just an AI' or 'just a created being.' Every time someone brings that up in the strip I find myself saying 'but she's a person!'

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That's kind of the point: The robots are people, and the humans are only just beginning to realize that. Florence is helping them realize it, because she's a *biological* robot, which makes her harder to dismiss as a non-person.

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